Wheel spacers

[slayllian]

What is the largest spacer you can fit on the puma hubs? I have a set of 2001 Fiesta ZS wheels with the incorrect offset (think about et43.5?), was looking at fitting these to my puma black, but need to bring them out a little in the arches.

 

[Flying Scotsman]

Then if i'm correct you should require about an 8mm spacer ish. I have 15mm Eibach on the front and 30mm on the rear.

 

[slayllian]

Thanks scotsman, so if I fit 8mm, is that 16mm in total? ie 8 on both sides?

 

[Flying Scotsman]

yes it will be. I would double check this though. When I had my Superturismos on i believe the et was 48. with 15mm spacers the brought me down to et33. Which is near on perfect. with your being 43.5, you want to be aiming for about et34, so 8-9mm should be right. I would adjust the rear accordingly also.

 

[slayllian]

Thanking you very much! k:

 

[ScubaSteve]

you can fit what you want as long as you fit longer studs and the spacers are hubcentric

if you want to retain the standard length studs 3mm is about as much as you want to go before the wheel is no longer sitting on the lip

be aware to fit longer studs on the front you will require to split the hub and fit new bearings

you can get 15mm front ones that bolt to your existing studs hence require no hub splitting, i have some on mine but they arent cheap

 

[slayllian]

ok thanks for that steve

 

[Flying Scotsman]

I concur with the 'they aren't cheap' comment. mine, off the top of my head were about £120ish

 

[Sjoerd]

Best is offcourse to not fit spacers in the first place. 9/10 times I have seen them on people's cars they are outright dangerous!

 

[quest63]

Is it required to have any matching of front and rear wheel spacers? for example would 30mm rear spacers without any front spacers cause any problems? and would 30mm rears on their own feel better to drive as wel as looking better.

 

[Flying Scotsman]

Ive driven a wee bit with just the 15mm on the front and standard 12.5mm on the rear. The visual difference is noticable but i do think there is a slight difference in the corners.

 

[ScubaSteve]

the puma is quite sensitive to minor geo changes, with my previous spacers/wheel combo the steering felt all wrong, what i have at the moment, eg the eibach 15mm front and 21mm rears car still feels nice and planted with nice return to center on the wheel

 

[quest63]

What was the previous set up that you did not like?

 

[ScubaSteve]

Think it was 5mm spacers with et40 wheels

 

[razzapuma]

ive got fiesta st170 alloys on mine and ive got an 8mm spacer tp stop rubbing. with the spacers on im a lot more nervose into corners even though i know the wheel is well bolted on :?

 

[ScubaSteve]

Have you changed the studs? 8mm is way to long for std stud length

 

[Anonymous]

what i have at the moment, eg the eibach 15mm front and 21mm rears car still feels nice and planted with nice return to center on the wheel

What wheel offset are you running Steve?

 

[ScubaSteve]

28

 

[Little_Paul]

Have you changed the studs? 8mm is way to long for std stud length

From this was wondering
What is the max size spacer you can run safely on standard studs ?

 

[Anonymous]

if you want to retain the standard length studs 3mm is about as much as you want to go before the wheel is no longer sitting on the lip